Siege of Ard al-Wahat

The Siege of Ard al-Wahat (1192) was a battle of the Third Crusade that saw the Kingdom of Jerusalem launch a failed siege of the Ayyubid city of Ard al-Wahat in Syria. A Jerusalemite siege army, including battering rams, assaulted the al-Anfal Military Encampment in the south of the city. The Ayyubids sent out waves of cavalry, horse archers, and foot soldiers to engage the Jerusalemites, and both sides suffered heavy losses in the carnage outside of the city walls. The Jerusalemites never entered the city, and the Arabs would proceed to besiege their city of Omorphochorius as the Franks retreated.